Light Through the Past

"This week Dr. Jenkins explores St. Augustine's novel doctrine of predestination, how did he come to believe it, and what we should Orthodox should think of it." Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation Doxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24 Luxchristi blog for the text from today's episode: https://tinyurl.com/StAugPredestination

For this episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the debate between St. Augustine and Pelagius on the power of sin in our lives, how extensive is its hold, and how do we 'get' it. Doxamoot tickets: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24 Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation

This week Dr. Jenkins, after a seeming gratuitous poem from John Donne (but can anything from Donne be gratuitous) looks again at how we should think about Tradition, and why this is so relevant when discussing St. Augustine." Dr. Jenkins' book: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints Donne's poem: https://luxchristi.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/the-feast-of-the-annunciation-via-john-donne/ Orthodoxy & Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation

This week Dr. Jenkins begins what will be a long and involved discussion of the Pelagian controversy. This touches more than just a British monk, but questions of the soul, freewill, predestination, inherited guilt and corruption, and difference between Greek East and Latin West. Orthodox Education Conference: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation A Perilous Realm: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints

This week we continue our look at St. Augustine, and in particular his controversy with the Donatists, whose vision of a pure Church struck at the very foundation of the Church as God's ordinary locus of grace. For Dr. Jenkins new book: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints

This week Dr. Jenkins looks at St. Augustine's use of classical and Platonic motifs in describing the soul's relation to the cosmos through his influential treatise On music. Dr. Jenkins most recent book: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints Orthodoxy & Education Conference: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxyEdu

Continuing with his discussion of St. Augustine, Dr. Jenkins explores the Saint's account of his conversion to Christ as recounted in the Confessions. Orthodoxy and Education: https://orthodoxeducationconference.wordpress.com/ Perilous Realm: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints

This week Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion of St. Augustine, looking at his life up to his momentous conversion in Milan. Info on Dr. Jenkins new book: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints Info on the Orthodoxy & Education Conference: https://orthodoxeducationconference.wordpress.com/

This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at St. Augustine's intellectual formation, and how he came from rebellious son to intellectual arrogance and at last to a questioning what he thought he believed. Dr. Jenkins new book: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints

This wee Dr. Jenkins begins his discussion of the monumental and monumentally problematic figure of St. Augustine: monk, commentator, preacher, bishop, and writer. You can order Dr. Jenkins recent book at http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints